How will they hide the new Warchief's identity from us?

topic. I presume they NEED to stick in the sound files for each of the MAJOR characters (thrall, Vol'jin, Varian) before the patch goes live, and that should give us an indication about whats in store for the Horde now. so how can they hide who the new warchief will be? Will it only be revealed in the Garrosh death credits scene?

If i recall correct the 4.3 ending movie wasn't put in until after the patch was out and thats the only place they really need to show who becomes the new war chief in 5.4 After that sure there will be in game references and a change made but during 5.4 just needs to be in the movie and can be kept away from data miners til the last moment. I only hope tho the patch preview trailer isnt as rushed and crappy as 4.3 was.

That is a very likely candidate. Blizzard doesnt know how to hide their stuff, really, they dont. It was pretty clear that garrosh was going to be the next warchief, ie being forced on us left and right in wotlk, and then he had his own novel. Voljin is forced on us in the very same manner, but hes less whiny and stuck up.

The two likely candidates are Voljin and Saurfang, Voljin more so. Unlikely is Lorthemar. Another likely scenario is a "War Council," Like the Dwarves have.

That is a very likely candidate. Blizzard doesnt know how to hide their stuff, really, they dont. It was pretty clear that garrosh was going to be the next warchief, ie being forced on us left and right in wotlk, and then he had his own novel.

Blizzard pretty much released this information shortly after they said that the Horde needs a new Warchief, Garrosh got some attention in Wotlk but it was mostly Garrosh vs. Varian, which boiled down to the Ulduar Cinematic and TotC.

And Garrosh never had his own Novel, Shattering had some focus on him but it's not a Novel for him like Twilight of the Aspects for Thrall or Stormrage for Malfurion.

Originally Posted by dokhidamo

Easy. There won't be a new warchief named in 5.4.

That will be part of the pre-Expansion V events in either 5.5 or 6.0.

Usually they want to finish the story of a expansion when the expansion obviously ends, i hardly think that they will delay the answer on such question for many months.

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